Picking Up the Tempo: CNY winter music schedule

As part of our annual Arts Issue, we’re looking at the winter and 2019 season for everything artsy in and around Syracuse. Want to know who’ll be jamming out around Central New York this winter? Take a look:

Syracuse

Downtown Syracuse venues gear up early for the fall music season, with David Byrne’s Sept. 12 performance at the Landmark Theatre. The Talking Head will be followed by Gaither Vocal Band (Sept. 15) and Bob Weir and Wolf Bros (Nov. 8).

A few blocks over, the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena presents Thomas Rhett (Sept. 21), while the nearby Pirro Convention Center will offer Halestorm and In This Moment (Nov. 23). The Mulroy Civic Center complex (411 Montgomery St.) features a Christmas show with Jim Brickman (Dec. 18) at the Carrier Theater, while the Crouse-Hinds Concert Theater has booked Modest Mouse (Oct. 2), Halloween-timed antics with Alice Cooper (Oct. 6) and Jeremy Camp and Matthew West (Nov. 1).

The Crouse-Hinds venue will also feature many concerts from Symphoria, the Salt City’s acclaimed symphonic orchestra. Their Masterworks concerts are slated for Sept. 14, Oct. 5, Nov. 3, Jan. 26, Feb. 16, March 9 and 30, and May 18. The Pops series will be heard on Oct. 13, Dec. 14, Feb. 9, March 23, and May 11 and 12.

Staying in that classical vein, NYS Baroque will feature performances on Sept. 14, Nov. 2, Feb. 22, April 6 and May 3 at the First Unitarian Universalist.